I am taking some leap of faith here. Whenever I am looking for the shorter shrub, often called the Dwarf Ixora, in southern Florida, all the web sites take me to Ixora taiwanensis and a few cultivars of it. I could not help but wonder what the Ixora with a dense, lower form and smaller leaves planted at the motel was. I did find one source online that said that Ixora javanica is the same species as I. taiwanensis. I have a large textbook with colored photos called "The Plant Book, An Encyclopedia of Worldwide Flora." It does not list any Taiwan Ixora but it does list the Javan species and says that in cultivation the shrub only gets about 5 feet high. The plant at the motel is about 5 feet high. So for now I am plugging it in here.

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